Year end review of 2025, I’ve got only a recipe/story in Malarkey’s Summer Menu and a flash piece about Malört, Chicago, and cancer in HAD. Sparse, you say? I like to call it chic and minimalist!

One more time, for your New Year’s reading “pleasure”

If your New Year Resolution is to read my novel Deliver Thy Pigs, now’s a great opportunity to get it cheaper!

I got my BA in 2025, that was cool. As far as other accomplishments for the year, well,

Wife super slammed today. I get it. No one really wants to go into 2026. She’s a hospice nurse.

Because maybe you secretly want it, here comes my incredibly modest end-of-year writing recap …

Last chance to give !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

START THE NEW YEAR WITH A HAIR SHIRT

Do this, and also get I Blame Myself But Also You from Asterism. You will dig it! asterismbooks.com/product/i-bl...

Book reviewers! Interviewers! Come one, come all! Let me send you a copy!

Ditto in every sold out better than mine anyway word

‘Twas the night before New Year’s Eve and all through the house not a creature was stirring except me reading James

The vibes in ‘The Luminous Cattle’ by Emilia Cantor are just immaculate! It is the perfect mixture between gothic, whimsical and surreal! #art #beautifulbizarre #emiliacantor #newcontemporary #contemporaryartist #oilpainting #gothicart #darkart #surrealism #surrealart

Here’s a joke that my Kansas family liked: What did the farmer say when he couldn’t find his tractor? “Where’s my tractor?”

Had the writers group at the library read Moves (on more than one occasion)

It is an honor to have two new hyper vulnerable poems in the latest issue of SALAMANDER, a journal I’ve been trying to burrow into for a decade. If you need your Bell Jar fix, want to hear about my study abroad to France 20 years ago, or want a splitter explained, read these!

I'm at the combination Pizza Hut/optometrist

You can WHAT

3️⃣ days!

Smokers of 2025. #streetphotography

A Boxing Day special for you to “enjoy” farewelltransmission.net/2025/12/whit...

Admitting and accepting I have a problem. Started 4 books in the last 5 days and have only finished 1.

Raise your hand if you’re a librarian who’s going in after break with a coffee drenched library book.

Richard Grimm Sachsenberg (German, 1873–1952) "Winternacht (Winter Night)", 1920s. Color Woodcut, 44 × 56 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Brian E. Jones (British, b. 1948). Winter, Gregynog (1992, acrylic on canvas)

Cyril Cox (Canadian, b.1958) "Winter Sundown," Acrylic on masonite #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Sure is beautiful out there right now.

bullshit winter tan

The cover (designed by @johnchrostek.com) for The Inaccessible Rail, a novel by @rogerjva.bsky.social, out in October 2026—the preorder link, if you’d like a signed copy, is accessible now! malarkeybooks.com/store/inacce...

Oooooo boy we sharp

About to cut something. Slice a sweet pepper. Dice a white onion. I got new knives.

Playing the Ninja Rap scene on loop until Criterion adds Secrets of the Ooze to the collection

Canadian Cobra Chicken

have you set any goals for 2026

If tv commercials are to be believed everyone in America is addicted to sports betting and has to ask their phone to help them tie their shoes.

It doesn’t matter how short the book is, if the poetry is good I won’t be finishing it any time soon

john waters' 1995 christmas card with steve buscemi as him

you will be visited by the three ghosts of insomnia past present & future

Elf on a shelf? More like owl on the prowl

Preparing for Christmas by turning on the tv so the kid will calm himself and pass out. However, now we’ll be up all night bc I put on the Earthworm Jim Animated Series. Santa understands.

Merry Christmas!

Getting funny looks reading this headline aloud around the library

you hardly touched it

when some people choose between a weekly injection or daily pill to regulate their hormones so as to align their body with their desired appearance i guess it's no big deal

It's hard to have any kind of belief system that doesn't devolve into absurdity unless its believers have an intuitive understanding of metaphor. Can this be taught? I wonder.